May 12, 2008 11:01
For those of you in Toronto, I'm reading at a service for the 635th anniversary of Julian of Norwich's "showings" at Church of the Redeemer on Bloor & Avenue. (7:00 pm, Tuesday May 13.) The service has been arranged by DT, and it consists of a talk on the visions, a reading of the complete short text, and some hymns. Then, during the coffee & cookie service at the end, we speakers are to "fan out" into the crowd and press hazelnuts into the hands of the congregants. This is the part of the service that has my cheeze-radar up and sounding the alarms.
I told him I had experience as a lector and he gave me the long bits. Now I'm going to go try to feel better enough that I don't throw up/faint at the lectern.